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Looking for easy baked chicken recipes? Well, go no further than this Bacon, Cream Cheese, Cheddar Chicken! What's great about this recipe? It uses basic ingredients that just about everybody loves! Everything is baked together in one casserole dish. Chicken and 2 kinds of cheese. Try it and see for yourself! This chicken bake is low carb, high fat, KETO friendly, gluten free recipe.
Perfect recipe for those nights when you don't have much time on your hands to fiddle with too many complicated ingredients. This recipe is very similar to my popular broccoli bacon cheddar chicken. Baked chicken recipes these days often include some sophisticated ingredients and complicated cooking techniques, but not here. It's a KETO friendly, low-carb, and gluten free recipe.
This Bacon, Creamy Cheese, Cheddar Chicken is simple and delicious, with the minimum prep, and everything is baked in 30 minutes, just like in this ranch chicken bake! And, if you want to make your chicken bake with ham instead, you can make ham and cheese chicken.
And, in all of these recipes you use good old casserole dish.
Substitutions
- The recipe uses chicken breasts. You can also use skinless boneless chicken thighs and follow the recipe as is.
- The recipe uses shredded Cheddar cheese. You can use also use Colby Jack cheese (combination of Colby cheese and Monterey Jack cheese).
Cooking tips
- Use small chicken breasts. If you purchased large chicken breasts, slice each one in half horizontally, to make it thinner. Or, purchase thinly sliced chicken breasts.
- The cooking time depends on the thickness of your chicken breasts. The thinner the chicken breasts are, the quicker the dish will cook. On average, the chicken should be done in 20-30 minutes.
- Bake the chicken uncovered, so that the cheese on top gets crispy.
What makes this chicken KETO friendly recipe
- This recipe contains cream cheese, Cheddar cheese, and bacon. All these ingredients have high fat, low sugar content.
- This recipe contains foods that are high in protein but low in carb, such as chicken breasts.
- There is no flour, no grains, nothing with gluten in this recipe.
Steps to make this easy baked cream cheese cheddar chicken recipe:
Preheat the oven to 400 F. Grease the bottom of the casserole dish with olive oil. Then, add chicken breasts.
Next, sprinkle chicken breasts with salt and pepper. Top with cream cheese.
Next, top with chopped cooked bacon.
Finally, top with shredded Cheddar cheese.
Bake, uncovered, for about 20-30 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through. The cooking time will depend on the thickness of your chicken breasts.
Oozing with cream cheese, this bacon cheddar chicken is so good! I hope you enjoy it and leave your review!
Related KETO Friendly Chicken Recipes
- Chicken breasts are smothered with creamed spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, and bacon, and then baked in the oven: Chicken Smothered with Bacon and Creamed Spinach
- Here is another low-carb, keto-friendly, gluten free chicken breast recipe with Mozzarella cheese: Basil Pesto Tomato Mozzarella Chicken Bake
Side dishes to serve with chicken
- Cooked greens will always go great with this chicken dish. Cooked spinach, roasted asparagus, green beans, or cooked broccoli. Also, mashed potatoes or scalloped potatoes are great.
- You can also use flavored rice. Or, try this cilantro-lime rice (with or without black beans).
- Here is an excellent recipe for roasted asparagus with bacon and cheese.
- I also love these Asiago cheese roasted broccoli, they are so crunchy I usually have a hard time not eating them all by myself.
Bacon, Cream Cheese, Cheddar Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 chicken breasts (use 4 thin chicken breasts, or use 2 large chicken breasts, sliced in half, horizontally)
- salt and pepper
- 6 oz cream cheese , cold, refrigerated, and sliced into 8 slices
- 8 strips bacon , cooked, chopped
- 1 cup Cheddar cheese , shredded
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 F.
- Grease the bottom of the casserole dish with olive oil. I used the the oval casserole dish measured 13 inches x 9 inches x 4 inches deep.
- Add chicken breasts to the casserole dish. Note about chicken: use 4 thin chicken breasts, or use 2 large thick chicken breasts, sliced in half horizontally each to make 4 thin chicken breasts.
- Sprinkle chicken breasts with salt and pepper.
- Top with cream cheese. Cream cheese should be cold, right out of the fridge, sliced into 8 thin slices.
- Top with chopped cooked bacon (drained from fat).
- Top with shredded Cheddar cheese.
- Bake, uncovered, for about 20-30 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through. The cooking time will depend on the thickness of your chicken breasts.
Nutrition
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Wow, it looks so delicious, baked chicken with cheese is my favorite and crispy part is the best for me. Thanks so much for the recipe.
So glad you enjoyed this recipe!
This is incredible. I made for my family and it was a huge hit. They wanted me to save the recipe. We are doing the keto diet and this is perfect. Thank you for sharing...
You are very welcome! I am very happy you enjoyed this recipe!
OMG!! This is awesome!! I have wanted to find out how to cook the most perfect chicken. This process MAY just do it for me. That chicken looks amazing.
Thanks for sharing!! It was delicious especially when I hadn't gone to the supermarket to do some shopping. Thank goodness I had those ingredients!
So happy you made this recipe and liked it!
We don’t normally eat a lot of chicken, but lately this has made it into the rotation a half dozen times in the last few months. Very delicious, filling, and turns out tender and perfect every time. Thank you
You are very welcome! I am so glad you enjoyed this recipe and made it several times. Thank you for taking the time to share your wonderful comment.
Wow ... they look so cool, just looking at it wanted to taste it right away. And the great thing is that it's easy to make them, the ingredients are simple, easy to find. has added to the menu this weekend. Thank you for sharing the recipe
You are very welcome! I am glad you like this recipe!
Oh my gosh! I never, and I mean NEVER eat chicken breast! It's just dry and nasty, but I made this tonight and it was so freakin good!!! Hubby loved it also!! I told him I can't believe I'm eating chicken breast and loving it! I had a couple chicken breasts in the freezer that were left from a party where a couple people prefer breasts, needed to get rid of them. I literally googled "recipes for chicken breasts cheesy", and this was the first thing to come up. And I'm so glad it did! It sounded good, sounded easy, and it was both of those!! Thank you for having this recipe out there to be found!!!
Your comment made my day! I am so glad you found my recipe, made it, and enjoyed it! Thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a sweet and kind comment!
Quick, easy, delicious. Also really nice it reheats and still tastes great.
So glad you liked this! And, yes, this dish reheats beautifully!
I offered to do some home cooking for my bachelor son & this was his choice. I had made it quite a while ago. It’s delicious & so so easy after working all day
So glad you liked this recipe! 🙂
Yum! I saw the recipe above for ranch chicken and sprinkled a bit of ranch powder on before the cheddar. Gave it to kuch flavor! We used chicken thighs which layed very flat and were totally cooked in 30 minutes. Yum sent this to all my foodies!
I am so glad you tried this recipe and liked it! 🙂
I love this recipe because of the simplicity and ingredients, which are easy to find
So happy to hear that! 🙂
I made this recipe last night and it was incredible. I did cut my boneless chicken breast in half then pounded the chicken to make it thin. But other than that I did the recipe exactly as written. I was quick, easy and delicious. Cant wait to try other recipes in Julia's Album
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I am so happy you tried this recipe and liked it! I am also glad you came over to my site and left a comment letting me know you enjoyed it!
Could you come up with some recipes that are very low in sodium ,carbsand fats,possibly please ??
Someone had made this at work and I was texting my boyfriend letting him know how great it was, making it for the family tonight! Wonderful!
I am so glad you enjoyed this recipe! Thank you for stopping by and letting me know that!
I was looking for something new and out of the ordinary, and this recipe blew me away!! It was so easy too. It is my absolute favorite chicken recipe by far. The bacon, cream cheese, and the cheddar cheese pair perfectly with the chicken for a taste sensation.
Thank you! Your comment made my day! I am so glad you tried this recipe and liked it!